Public Notes:

Hard copy of course materials and individual handouts for THE COMPLEXITY LECTURES were not sent to GMU, instead Warfield prepared three tape-bound reports, titled Lecture Groups 1, 2, and 3, which were shipped to Fenwick in 2000 and are in Box 36 of Warfield Special Collection. The Warfield Special Collection at Fenwick Library GMU has videotapes of MOST of the lectures.

This was Lecture No. 1 of the Johnson Center Lecture Series given during the 1998 Fall Semester at George Mason.  The folder which opens in the linked PATH field displays several document files, please note that the computer files <Handouts2Lecture1> and <Handouts1Lecture1> contain the transparencies used during the talk and printed in the handout given to the audience.

After the series of 12 Complexity Lectures was finished, copies of these papers went into a tape-bound report titled George Mason University Johnson Center Lecture Series on Complexity, Lecture Group 1. The report is in Box 36, Folder 9 of GMU's Warfield Collection at Fenwick Library. The lecture was NOT videotaped, because no videotaping had been planned, and none begun until Lecture No. 3 after Ben Broome suggested videos and lined up the student video outfit which taped most of the lectures. Manuscripts prepared for this talk are in four separate computer files located in the folder COMPLEXITY LECTURES HANDOUTS. The first one, “lecture1text.wpd” has most of the lecture covered pretty well, the others are more handout materials:

\lecture01\lecture1text.wpd = Lecture 1:Johnson Lecture Series on Complexity. 21 pages

\lecture01\lecture1OPENING.wpd = Opening the Lecture Series. 1 page

\lecture01\JohnsonCenterLecture1C = Thought Leaders on Complexity. 10 pages of biographical notes

\lecture01\handoutslecture1.wpd = Distributed Materials part1. 8 transparencies

\lecture01\handoutslecture2.wpd =  Distributed Materials part2. 22 transparencies.

\lecture01\shortformlecture1cells.wpd = list of thought leaders and their areas of study. 2 pages

 Below are titles of the individual cells in the handouts given to audience. Copies of all these cells were printed and distributed to the attendees as the lecture began. PART 1:  1. Thought Leaders on Complexity  2. Areas of Study of the Thought Leaders on Complexity  3. Inclusion Structure for Four Areas of Complexity  4. Correlating Thought Leaders' Contributions with the Infrastructure of Science  5. Chronology: The Work Program of Complexity  6. Killer Assumptions About Complexity  7. Demands of Complexity Related to Types of Killer Assumptions 8. Recognizing a Science When You See One

WALLAS: On the Syllogism, Speaking Graphically, Syllogizing Graphically, On Abélard, Abélard on Inference: 1 Abélard on Inference 2 On Leibniz,  Pope's Remedy, On De Morgan, Four Modes of Definition, On Boole, Complexity Defined, On Peirce, Peirce On the Search for Truth, Criteria for Cognitive Viability, Three Types of Mathematical Mind, Gibbs' Definition of System, Slow Drift Toward Formalism, Foucault's definition of the archeology of knowledge, Foucault on detaching a science, Peirce on the observer and the observed, Peirce on the value of formal logic.

*Readme for Complexity Lecture handouts folder: Doubtless some of those extra files in that PATH could be deleted, but I haven't had time as yet to go through them all and make sure what to keep and what to discard, so I just put them all in.  Throughout the semester as he was preparing for the lectures, Warfield pulled files from old cell packages, and old writings, and also made up new stuff, and compiled it all into the lecture of the moment. I tried to collect all of the computer files he used as handouts for each lecture. Sometimes he was pretty concise, sticking to just one document as a resource. Other times he dropped in references and photos from all over the place. I kept them separated by Lecture Handout numbers, but that does not necessarily mean all of them were used in the talk, or even printed as a part of the final three booklets with which he ended the course r.w. 3/01/2007, updated 2/21/2014

                 OVERALL LIST OF THE 12 JOHNSON CENTER  LECTURES:

         1- Thought Leaders and Their Contributions [this text] [no VHS/MPEG]

                      This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later.

          2 -  Twenty Laws of Complexity [text] [no VHS/MPEG]

                       This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later.

          3 -  Applications in Industry & Government [text] [VHS/MPEG]

          4 -  Implications for Higher Education, Part I: Undergraduate Education in the USA [text] [VHS/MPEG]

          5 -  Seven Milestones in the History of Thought [text] [no VHS/MPEG]

                      This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later.

           6 - The Mathematics of Structure [text] [VHS/MPEG]

           7 -  Applications in Ghana, Liberia and Mexico [text] [VHS/MPEG]

           8 -  Higher Education and the Thought Leaders [text] [VHS/MPEG]

           9 - The Legacy of Charles Sanders Peirce [text] [VHS/MPEG]

          10 - The Work Program of Complexity [text] [VHS/MPEG]

          11 -  Applications of Interactive Management in Cyprus [text] [VHS/MPEG Tape 1;  Tape 2]

          12 - The Wandwaver Solution [text] [VHS/MPEG]